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      Adaptations to submarine hydrothermal environments exemplified by the genome of Nautilia profundicola

      Campbell, Barbara J.; Smith, Julie L.; Hanson, Thomas E.; Klotz, Martin G.; Stein, Lisa Y.; Lee, Charles Kai-Wu; Wu, Dongying; Robinson, Jeffrey M.; Khouri, Hoda M.; Eisen, Jonathan A.; Cary, S. Craig
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       10.1371/journal.pgen.1000362
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      Campbell, B. J., Smith, J. L., Hanson, T. E., Klotz, M. G., Stein, L. Y., Lee, C. K., Wu, D., Robinson, J. M., Khouri, H. M., Eisen, J. A. & Cary, S. C. (2009). Adaptations to submarine hydrothermal environments exemplified by the genome of Nautilia profundicola. PloS Genetics, 5(2): e1000362.
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      Submarine hydrothermal vents are model systems for the Archaean Earth environment, and some sites maintain conditions that may have favored the formation and evolution of cellular life. Vents are typified by rapid fluctuations in temperature and redox potential that impose a strong selective pressure on resident microbial communities. Nautilia profundicola strain Am-H is a moderately thermophilic, deeply-branching Epsilonproteobacterium found free-living at hydrothermal vents and is a member of the microbial mass on the dorsal surface of vent polychaete, Alvinella pompejana. Analysis of the 1.7-Mbp genome of N. profundicola uncovered adaptations to the vent environment—some unique and some shared with other Epsilonproteobacterial genomes. The major findings included: (1) a diverse suite of hydrogenases coupled to a relatively simple electron transport chain, (2) numerous stress response systems, (3) a novel predicted nitrate assimilation pathway with hydroxylamine as a key intermediate, and (4) a gene (rgy) encoding the hallmark protein for hyperthermophilic growth, reverse gyrase. Additional experiments indicated that expression of rgy in strain Am-H was induced over 100-fold with a 20uC increase above the optimal growth temperature of this bacterium and that closely related rgy genes are present and expressed in bacterial communities residing in geographically distinct thermophilic environments. N. profundicola, therefore, is a model Epsilonproteobacterium that contains all the genes necessary for life in the extreme conditions widely believed to reflect those in the Archaean biosphere—anaerobic, sulfur, H₂- and CO₂-rich, with fluctuating redox potentials and temperatures. In addition, reverse gyrase appears to be an important and common adaptation for mesophiles and moderate thermophiles that inhabit ecological niches characterized by rapid and frequent temperature fluctuations and, as such, can no longer be considered a unique feature of hyperthermophiles.
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      2009
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      Public Library of Science
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      This article has been published in the journal: PLoS Genetics. © 2009 Campbell et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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